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MoMA’s free outdoor summer concert series, Summergarden, will begin this Sunday evening, July 6, 2008.
Each Sunday evening during the summer, members of the Julliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center will bring their musical talent to the Sculpture Garden at MoMA. The museum has a long history of presenting jazz and new concert music […]
Dalí: Painting and Film, MoMA’s newest exhibition, examines how Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí’s relationship with film and cinema affected his art. In the first exhibition of its kind, over 130 of Dalí’s paintings, drawings, and letters are on display showing how cinema was, in his early years, an inspiration that evolved into an outlet […]
The face of the Bowery changed forever on December 1, 2007 when the New Museum of Contemporary Art reopened its doors to the public after a massive relocation to the Bowery. Since its conception in 1977, the museum has become the most relevant institution with regards to contemporary art, hosting a rotation of temporary […]
“Guardians of the Forest: Photographs by Rodrigo Petrella” | National Museum of the American Indian Part of the Amazônia Brasil exhibition, these photographs introduce some of the Amazon region’s indigenous people. Free. Through July 13.
“Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008″ | Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Exploring rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the […]
The entrance to the New York Transit Museum may be easy to miss– it looks like the entrance to a functioning subway station. Housed in a now-defunct 1930s Brooklyn Court Street subway station, this museum honors the birth and evolution of the the now 100-year-old New York City subway.
Explore the history of the […]
Fashion has never appealed to the masses more since Project Runway came to television. New York City is a fashion mecca from its Madison Avenue boutiques to Fashion Week twice a year. It’s only right that New York City also have a museum dedicated to fashion: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
The […]
History is alive at every corner in Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., but “Old New York” barely exists anymore. There is one standout exception, one of the last existing buildings from New York’s golden age of commerce still stands and is open to visitors: Merchant’s House Museum.
The Merchant’s House Museum is a restored 19th-century […]
Located in the beaux-arts Alexander Hamilton Customs House on the Battery, the National Museum of the American Indian houses some of the Smithsonian’s collection of Native American art and artifacts.
The permanent collection spans more than 10,000 years of native history, a significant portion of which is dedicated to the natives of North America […]
This is your last weekend to catch the Whitney Biennial, the majority of the exhibition ends June 1st. Here is the rest of my short list on other notable exhibitions and shows that are ending in June. Be sure you catch these events before they’re gone!
“Geometry in Motion” | MoMA Tracing the transformation of the […]
The Whitney is so much more than just a biennial. The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading collection of 20th-century American contemporary art located right in the heart of Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
The Whitney was founded in 1931 with the donation of 700 objects from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Whitney, […]
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